Sanitary attachment for drinking-glasses.



L. MOHAIR.

SANITARY ATTACHMENT FOR DRINKING GLASSES.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 13. 1912.

1,034,636. Patented Aug. 6, 1912.

.i. 1 IIII I mm ron, Lz/TME/Z/VC/VA/Q ,IIUTHER MON-Q13, OF BROOKLYN, NEWYORK.

SANITARY ATTACHMENT FOR DRINKING-GLASSES.

. Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented A ng. 6, 1912.

Application filed March 18, 1912. Serial No, 683,4,82.

To all'wh'om it may concern:

' Be it known that I, LUTHER Mc'NAm, a citizen of the United States, andresiding at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Sanitary A ttachmentsfor Drinking-Glasses, of which the following 1s a specification, such aswill tom of the front enable those' skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to sanitary'attachments for drinking glasses,cups, goblets and the like, and the object thereof is to provide animproved device of this class, which may be easily attached to, anddetached from an article of the class specified,

Whenever desired, and which is intended to prevent the lips or any partof the mouth from coming in contact with the glass, cup or goblet in theoperation of drinking.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification of whichthe accompanying drawing forms a part in which the separate parts of myimprovement are designated by suitable reference characters 1n each ofthe views, and in which Figure 1 is an inside or front view of myimproved attachment;Fig. 2 a back view of the attachment showingthe sameconnected with an ordinary glass or goblet. Fig. 3 a sect-ion on theline 3-3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 a section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 2, and;Fig. 5 a view similar to Fig. 3, but showing a modification.

My improved drinking glass attachment a involves a frame composed ofspring wire, or a spring rod or of any other suitable material, andcomprises an inner or front yokeshaped member 12 which opens upwardly,and an outer or back yoke-shaped member a which opens upwardly, and thesides of which are divergent and connected at the top as shown at d toform side loops 6 which open downwardly.

The side parts of the outer or back yokeshaped members a are connectedbya transverse plate f, theends of which are preferably folded aroundsaid side part as shown at f?, but this connection may be made in anydesired manner, and connected with the top edge of the transverse topplate f is a flexible sheet 9 of rubber, or other suitable materialwhich is carried down to the botyoke-shaped member 5, and securedthereto as shown at 9 this connection beingpreferably made by a tubularplate f,

and in practice the back transverse plate f is preferably made of twothicknesses, and the sheet 9 is secured between said thicknesses asshown.

In the form of construction shown in Figs. 1 to 4 a downwardly directedspring tongue 71. is secured to and centrally of the bottom of the backyoke-shaped member 5 of the device, and this spring tongue h aids inholding the attachment in position when in use. The side yoke-shapedmembers 6 which open downwardly are provided at the top thereof, and onthe inner sides thereof with transverse flexible sheets 2', similar tothe sheet 9, which are secured thereto in any desired manner, and whichextend downwardly to the top edge of the transverse and to the top foldof the sheet 9, and in the use of this device it is connected with aglass, cup or similar article j as shown in Figs. 2, 3 and 4, the topedge of the glass or cup, at one side thereof, being passed upwardlyinto the device or between the side loop or yoke-shaped members ein suchmanner that the sheet 9 will be on the inner side of the glass or cup,and the plate f on the outer slde thereof in which position of saidparts the tongue it will bear on the back or outside of the glass orcup, and hold the attachment in. position, and in the operation ofdrinking the transverse plate f will come in contact with the bottomlip, and the sheet 9 with'the upper lip, and the yoke-shaped sidemembers 0, at the top thereof, and the sheets i secured thereto willguard the sides of the mouth or the ends of the lips, and prevent thesame from coming in contact withthe glass.

The construction shown in Fig. 5 is the same as that shown in Figs. 1 to4 inclusive, except that the spring tongue 71, is omitted, and inpractice the device maybe made sufficiently elastic to hold it inposition on the glass or goblet without the use of the spring tongue it.

In the construction shown in Figs. 1 to 4:, the bottom of theyoke-shaped member I) is divided centrally, and provided with anglemembers is, which extend upwardly, but in the construction shown in Fig.5 these angle members 70 extend downwardly and bear on the outer side ofthe glass or goblet, but this construction, also, is immaterial, as theframe of the device may be made sufficiently elastic to hold it inposition.

clamp as shown,

. verse plate and a in and modifications of the form and construction ofthe'device, as herein described,

may be made, within the scope of the ap-' pended claims withoutdeparting from the spirit'of my invention or sacrificing its advantages.

Having fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent,is:-

1. A sanitary attachment for drinking glasses, goblets and the like,said attachment comprising a frame composed of front and backyoke-shaped members which open upwardly, and the sides of which areconnected to form side yoke-shaped members which open downwardly, theback yoke shaped member being provided with a transexible sheetconnected with the top of said plate, and with the bottom of the frontyoke-shaped member.

2. A sanitary attachment for drinking. 7

glasses, goblets and the like, said attachment comprising a framecomposed of front and back yoke-shaped members which open upwardly, andthe sides of which are connected to form side yoke-shaped members whichopen downwardly, the back yokeshaped member bein provided with atransverse plate and a exible sheet connected with the top of saidplate, and with the bottom of the front yoke-shaped member, and the topsof the side yoke-shaped members which open downwardly being alsoprovided with transverse sheets.

In testimony as my invention I have signed my name in presence of thesubscribing witnesses this 11th day of March 1912.

LUTHER McNAIR.

Witnesses:

C. E. MULREANY, A. C. STARcK.

that I claim the foregoing

